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Best Practice 26 September 2024

Five principles of good SEND transition support

Best Practice 26 September 2024

Partnership meets children’s needs

Features 26 September 2024

Legal Update: Labour’s care policy priorities

Ofsted said ‘innovative social work practice’ contributed to Telford and Wrekin’s second consecutive ‘outstanding’ rating

Features 26 September 2024

Local Spotlight: Telford and Wrekin Council

Adopteens gives young adoptees new opportunities and the confi dence to talk on subjects important to them

Features 26 September 2024

Adopted teens collaborate to have their voices reshape the social care system

Harkin: 'I care that they will not relive the past, that they will understand that everyone deserves their place in a shared community.'

Features 26 September 2024

How I Got Here: David Harkin, youth worker

Keir Starmer has announced greater support for care leavers in accessing social housing

News 25 September 2024

Prime Minister pledges better access to social housing for care leavers

Kinship care features in manifestos from all three main parties. Picture: Prostock Studio/Adobe Stock

News 25 September 2024

Unequal financial support blighting kinship care system, report finds

Obesity levels decreased in reception aged children but rose and 10- and 11-year-olds. Picture: Adobe Stock/Pavla Zakova

News 25 September 2024

Young people struggle to afford healthy food, research warns

Okezie: “We need to balance painting the picture of need with equipping young people with the tenacity to navigate this situation. We can’t remove hope from the narrative”

News 25 September 2024

UK Youth chief Ndidi Okezie to step down from role

Paul Lindley: ‘If we are going to solve this problem, we need to look at all times, places and spaces that children play’

Interviews 25 September 2024

Interview: Paul Lindley, Ella's Kitchen founder and play commission chair

Elvin: 'We need a service structure that is dedicated to children in all types of care'

Opinion 25 September 2024

A national care service delivered locally

Derren Hayes: 'Moving to a ‘report card’ system should remove the stigma that came with being branded inadequate'

Opinion 25 September 2024

We need to rethink how we measure inspection success

Alison O’Sullivan is chair of NCB and former ADCS president

Opinion 25 September 2024

Debate over care having protected status

Opinion 25 September 2024

Act early to promote healthy relationships